E-Dribble

The fact that the author thought instructions on how to fall 35,000 feet and live was a feasible how-to article is kind of funny.  It pales in comparison however, to this little tid-bit of info buried inside:

Then, if a feet-first entry is inevitable, the most important piece of advice, for reasons both unmentionable and easily understood, is to clench your butt.

Mental note:  The next time I’m thrust out of a commercial airliner at cruising altitude, I absolutely must remember to put my reading material aside, pull my earphones and clench my asshole tightly at the end of the fall.

Opera 10 has been released to great fanfare and many news outlets are taking the time to let us know how great it is.  Cnet wants us to know about the great game widgets you can install on it.

There’s still no easy way to block ads.  But you can now play basketball with it.

Opera has stated that it won’t implement an ad blocking measure into the browser for altruistic reasons.  They don’t feel that they  have the right to strip content providers of income.

In reality, it wasn’t too long ago that Opera was forcing you to look at ads that they embedded in their own browser if you opted not to pay for a web browser.

So, it’s simple.  They feel a kinship to people serving ads.

For those that missed it though, you can now play basketball in Opera.

Just what we needed.

I installed Fedora 9 tonight.

Shortly after, I replaced my Fedora 7 install.

Gone are the days of out of the box successful networking.  Where any OS would recognize that you are connected to a network, Fedora now requires you to set up your network, much like Fedora 2.  Also, you can now welcome the arrival of the Vista-esque oversized graphical icons and laggy desktop performance.

I think we have witnessed Fedora’s jumping of the shark.